Sentences with phrase «from wealthier areas»

Connecticut Gov. Daniel Malloy's proposal to redistribute state school funding from wealthier areas to struggling cities has sparked opposition from well - off towns that are concerned about footing more of the bill.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health)- Children from poorer neighborhoods who are hospitalized are more likely to die before discharge than kids from wealthier areas, according to a new study.

Not exact matches

In recent years, Mr. Blankfein had brought in a series of executives from other areas of the company to manage the unit, which includes Goldman's mutual fund group and its money management business for wealthy families.

If there is one area in which the children as a group do seem to differ somewhat, in emotional reactions, from the children that I meet in wealthier communities — and even here I would be very cautious not to overstate this — it is in their sensitivity to other children's moments of anxiety and their acute awareness of emotional fragility and of the tipping point between exhilaration and depression.

«We serve the greater Atlanta area, from the wealthy suburbs of Alpharetta, historic Old Fourth Ward, and eclectic Little Five Points village to the sleepy rural towns dotted south of Atlanta,» President Kiefer Pirrung says.

I have coached in the wealthiest of suburban youth leagues and I've coached in inner city leagues that were in the most plighted areas where driving to and from practices made me very nervous.

The new GLC had a more balanced political profile, including many wealthy suburban areas, and control passed from Labour to the Conservatives and back again throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

Proponents of raising taxes on New York's wealthiest say they have a new impetus to increase the state's revenue — the continued bad news from Washington about deep federal cuts to health care and other areas.

«I am worried that the proposals could lead to pupils from poorer areas being disadvantaged as popular schools expand, and wealthier and better informed parents are able to set up their own schools,» Mr Salter said.

Senate Deputy Majority Leader Tom Libous hinted this month that Senate Republicans were wavering in their opposition to the special tax on the wealthy that Cuomo says puts high - tax New York at a competitive disadvantage and helps drive the very rich, like former Rochester - area billionaire Tom Golisano, from the state.

Ursula Rozum, the Syracuse - area Green Party candidate running in the NY - 25 against Democrat Dan Maffei and GOP Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle, says she is donating $ 4,250 in campaign contributions she received from a wealthy Florida couple she believes is trying to split the vote in the race.

A wholesale transfer of capital from the wealthy to the people through nationalisation of infrastructure assets is unlikely, but there are other areas at the margins where Ed's team are actively considering significant market intervention in the interests of redistribution (or «solving the cost of living crisis», as Labour's tired mantra has it).

Wealthy areas can generate large amounts of revenue from relatively minor increases in property tax rates due to high property valuations.

Wealthy neighborhood residents — mostly from one neighboring building — have successfully lobbied their local elected officials to rezone a 10 - block stretch of the area limiting the scope of Gamma's tower.

Social inequality refers to disparities in the distribution of economic assets and income as well as between the overall quality and luxury of each person's existence within a society, while economic inequality is caused by the unequal accumulation of wealth; social inequality exists because the lack of wealth in certain areas prohibits these people from obtaining the same housing, health care, etc. as the wealthy, in societies where access to these social goods depends on wealth.

Wealthier areas of sub-Saharan Africa seeing more societal changes had the highest rates of diabetes in 2015, with almost two - thirds of the region's diabetes costs coming from southern Africa (62 %, $ 12.1 billion), in particular, wealthier SoutWealthier areas of sub-Saharan Africa seeing more societal changes had the highest rates of diabetes in 2015, with almost two - thirds of the region's diabetes costs coming from southern Africa (62 %, $ 12.1 billion), in particular, wealthier Soutwealthier South Africa.

Shanghai WA Optimum Health Care, for example, which has plush headquarters in a gated estate in one of the wealthiest areas of central Shanghai, claims success in using stem cells derived from umbilical cord or adipose tissue to treat a range of disorders, from autism to multiple sclerosis.

While at SUNY Buffalo, I saw how starkly neighborhoods could change over a short distance, from the college section to a dangerous area, say, or a wealthy neighborhood.

Particular areas of UK are particularly affluent; therefore, there are a lot of wealthy older men looking for companionship, chiefly from girls half their age.

Also there are quite a few young girls from rural areas who use thaicupid to find a wealthy and nice foreigner man and don't mind if he is older.

Disadvantaged children in areas of low social mobility made 20 months less progress than their wealthier peers across England in 2015, according to research released today from Ambition School Leadership.

Drawing from Department for Education (DfE) data, Teach First found that pupils who receive free school meals (FSM) were less likely than their wealthier counterparts to become an apprentice in every area of England.

That's a big jump up from the Fs that North Carolina once garnered in this category during the 2000s — but that B grade only comes as a result of the state's recent move to slash funding for the wealthy districts and keeping funding levels for poorer areas stagnant.

Critics have claimed that niche schools, that are expensive to run, will spring up in wealthy areas and drain resources from existing schools.

When the SNP took power in 2007, 23 % of pupils from the least wealthy areas achieved one Higher, but this has risen to 40 %.

School leaders in affluent areas are able to call on support from wealthier parents to provide funding for better facilities, unlike leaders in less advantaged schools, where «parents aren't in a position to help financially».

Dr. Noguera, the N.Y.U. education professor and adviser to the city, applauded Mr. Klein for creating a grading system that rewarded improvement from year to year so that schools in poor neighborhoods had the same chance of achieving a good grade as those in wealthier areas.

The event is to be held tonight, Friday, February 21, from 5:00 - 6:00 (yes, for one hour) at The Montelucia Resort in a wealthy suburb within the metropolitan Phoenix area called Paradise Valley.

But data from Nevada, consistently ranked at the bottom in the nation for student achievement, quickly showed that a vast majority of applicants were not from low - income areas, but the wealthiest neighborhoods in Reno and Las Vegas.

The museum's first room explains the area was part of a large land holding during British colonial occupation owned by the wealthy Trench family who migrated to Jamaica from Ireland in the late 18th Century.

Ordos is situated in the center of a region, which has some of the largest deposits of coal in China, and has been transformed in record time from one of the poorest areas of China to one of the wealthiest.

It originally offered luxurious living to the wealthy white elite, but with the end of apartheid in the 1990s the building became a refuge for black newcomers from the townships and rural areas, and then immigrants from elsewhere in Africa.

doesn't that make for more crop failures, more expensive food, a shift to higher value cash crops (which may have lower food value or feed fewer but wealthier people), and a shift of agricultural areas away from the equator, resulting in costly changes in farm viability and land use?

People need to realize that you don't have to be white or wealthy to benefit from going green,» says Van Jones, founder of Green for All, a national campaign aiming to bring green - collar jobs to urban areas.

The wealthiest households in America are located in the San Francisco / Oakland / San Jose, Calif., area, according to recent data from MapInfo Inc..

The other letter came from the lawyer of a very wealthy and established family from the area.

Daren Blomquist, the vice president of RealtyTrac, notes that this housing market is so pricey for area workers because «it's a resort market where most of the buyers are wealthy individuals coming in from the outside, making the real - estate market less dependent on local wage earners.»

The fashionable Notting Hill area attracts wealthy buyers from Itay, France and the US, who spend an average of # 4 million on a new home.